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Lame spam of the day: Instant Acrobat Upgrade

Robert Weiner

Since Adobe seems to update Acrobat weekly, this message seems plausible. Some quick indicators that it isn't real: I get updates through the installed Adobe Updater, not as email messages. It lists an Adobe office in Canada, whereas the company is based in California. Text: INTRODUCING UPGRADED ADOBE ACROBAT READER 2012.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Answer a few questions about Adobe. To be eligible to win a one-year Adobe Creative Cloud subscription ($600 market value), participants must. Washington DC, here we come!

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do to get my novels out in the world, and have been greatly influenced by Cory Doctorow in terms of copyright (or, more accurately, copyleft ). You can either upload a.doc or.docx file, or a mobipocket format file. that are standard for eBooks.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

I've never used Adobe products seriously, and I had to learn a lot about how to format text and images as well as how to design a book overall. Do you know what the numbers on the copyright page mean? I also paid a fabulous illustrator, Jennifer Rae Atkins , to design the covers and a few of the interior images.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

This is a round-up of some of the free graphics tools that various folks have recommended to me including some sources for copyright free images. The most famous and full-featured page layout program is Adobe InDesign. Inkscape is another free open-source program that does much of what Adobe Illustrator.

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